Mercenaries Blaze

This is a decent tactical-strategy game if you're in the market for something like FFT. It won't knock your socks off, but it gets the job done.

Honest review: I wake up as a mercenary and got three of my best buds with me. I get to go capture some illegals and send them to a camp.... Got mixed feelings about that but a job is a job..... Hope the bonus is as good as the guys from ICE. The game is solid turn base tactical game, very similar to Ogre Tactics. (Which I do really enjoy!!!) The game starts off with only allowing you to play on easy or normal, until you beat it. Then you can pick harder difficulties. Story is actually very good. 8/10 The game is replayable, and there is two different storylines. I would have a hard time picking which storyline I prefer, both are just that good. Only spoiler I'd give you is for the first play thru, pick the answer you feel the best about. Tactics wise, this game is solid. The game doesn't care about your feelings, and I'm ok with that. Graphics are the same as Ogre Tactics and if you like that style, you'll like this. The pictures of the characters are very charming. The only thing I do not like about this game is that, if you're in a losing fight, it may take too long to really lose. There isn't an effective way of going back to the menu or just quitting. You hav…

Mercenaries Blaze is a tactical role-playing game developed by ESQUADRA,inc. and RideonJapan, with publishing handled by Flyhigh Works. As another installment in the long-running Mercenaries franchise, it builds upon the series' established formula by delivering strategic turn-based combat, extensive character growth, and a fantasy narrative driven by political conflict and personal conviction. Rather than reinventing the genre, the game focuses on refining familiar mechanics, resulting in an experience that feels both classic and polished for strategy RPG enthusiasts. The story follows a group of mercenaries who become entangled in a kingdom struggling with corruption, social inequality, and competing visions of justice. What begins as a straightforward military assignment gradually evolves into a larger conflict involving powerful factions, shifting alliances, and difficult moral choices. The narrative presents themes of leadership, sacrifice, and responsibility while giving each major character enough development to make their motivations believable. Although the overall structure follows recognizable fantasy conventions, the political intrigue and branching perspectives provid…

Very simple game. I can't tell it is top notch, but pretty worth price. As for me - pretty simple grind/casual tactic.

A turn-based tactics game similar to others by this publisher. Overall, decent system and gameplay loop. This one is very much like other Rideon "Mercenaries" titles -- to the point of using several maps, monster sprites, and sounds again. This doesn't bother me so much. Pretty weak story and characters compared to "Wild Lynx," and probably bottom 20% of RPGs I've played, which is saying a lot. This is not because of poor translation, either. If you're trying to choose between this title and another by the same publisher...give this one a miss. Otherwise, there's a similar "two branches" storyline to other Mercenaries titles, so most players will want to play through twice, and it's around 30-40 hours to do that unless you feel like grinding characters out to max level and synthesizing uber-powerful magical equipment.

A definite improvement over the older games. The fourth game marked a clear start of rising quality, and this one now went the proper step. That said, it is largely still the same game as always. Looks nicer, better art, a few new features but nothing big. Same with the story, it is told very quickly and could really use at least some more dialogue. This one in particular suffers from it because it deals with a very complicated topic, namely refugees. That has always and will always be a complicated topic and as such needs explanation. Why do people hate them so much for example? Do they dislike their culture, what is even their culture? Do they suffer heavy economic issues supporting the refugees? Did the refugees lead to a huge uptake in crime? It is never mentioned at all, just that a huge number of people seems to really hate them. But considering that the entire story revolves around that it REALLY should have been explored a bit more. Nonetheless a pretty fun game, solid gameplay with no surprises as is usual for Mercenary games.